Lost Arts

Railroad and steam power 3G00 years ago. The lost arts of the ancicnt Egyptians. Í f the Thebans, 1800 years before Clirist, knew less in some departments of knovvledge tlian ourselves, they also in others knew more. They possessed the art of tempering copper tools so as to cut the hardest granite vvith the most minute and brilliant precisión. - This art is lost. Again, what mechanica] nieans had they to raise and fis the eaormous imposts on the lintels of their temples at Karnac ? Architects noiv confess that they could not raise them to their usual mechanical powers. Those means must therelore be put to the acconnt of the ' lost arts.' - That they vvere familiar with the principie of artesian, has lately been proved by engineering investigations carried on vvhile boring for water in the grest Oasis. That they were acquainted with the principie of the railroad is obvious, that is to say, they had artificial causways, leveled, direct and groved (groovas being anointed with oil) lor the conveyance, from great distances, oí enormous blocks of stone, entire stone temples, and colosaal statues of half the height of the monument. - Remnants of ron, it is said, have lately been found in those grooves. Finally, M. Arago has argued, that they not only possessed a knowledge of the steam power, which they employed in the cavern mysteries of their Pagan free-masonry. (the oldest in the world, of which the pyratnids were the lodges,) but tliat the modern steam engine is derived, tbrouffh Solomon de Caus, the predecessor ol Worcester, from the invention of Hero